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Kaskaskia River: School Year Rituals

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Kaskaskia River If there is one place you can find me in the heat of the summer or the bone chilling winter it is definitely the Kaskaskia River. Me, my boat, and whoever wants to come with. It’s the one place I can go to and forget all of my problems and have the time of my life and the cool thing is it's only 40 minutes from my house. i can go there 365 days of the year and let the beautiful surroundings suck me in. When school lets out in May, one of my favorite end of the school year rituals is to go down to the Kaskaskia River with my friends and go boating. We go to the river because it is close to my house, the locals are nice, and the river lets us do what we love and that is to have fun. We once found a huge rope swing and if

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